#tempers

-MDR is sorting memory data for severed people or severance candidates. The 4 types of data they're sorting are the 4 tempers (WO - woe, DR - dread, FC - frolic, MA - malice), not sure what the 5 categories represent yet.

- Each of the MDR crew represent an overabundance of one of the tempers. Mark is woe, Dylan is frolic [editor's note: S1!Dylan], Irving is dread [editor's note: pre-Burt's retirement], Helly is malice.

-Lumon is using or has used brain dead people as test subjects for severance. They can somehow sever the dead parts of the brain & essentially create a new person from whatever functional portions remain. Gemma/Ms. Casey is one of these subjects. [editor's note: I no longer subscribe to this theory]

-Ms. Cobel has a comatose loved one under Lumon's care right now and that's why she's so obsessed with Mark/Gemma. She's desperate for confirmation that a severed person can recognize a loved one with enough prompting & familiar stimuli. [editor's note: I no longer subscribe to this theory either]

-Outie!Irving is a labor activist who infiltrated Lumon's severed floor & his sleep deprivation + painting the testing floor + Ace of Spades is an attempt to create a liminal state in Innie!Irving and an image strong enough to break through.

There’s four tempers and five buckets

I think I get it now

Kier is severing from himself the tempers so what’s left is the fifth bucket, bc you can’t remove everything bc what’s the point

The fifth bucket is what remains

I didn’t understand bc frolick seems nice? But it’s frivolous. Not industrious. Not of whatever Kier believes his highest self to be.

He’s getting rid of all the parts that get in the way of being a good worker

Betcha that’s what they’re doing in mdr, removing all the parts from whichever person the file is about that are frivolous. Unnecessary to the job. Distractions.

What’s left is refined. In Kier’s image.